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The Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts Presents: On Being Black: A Panel Discussion

A panel discussion that explores race, colorism, and racial identity.

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will host a panel discussion at 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 17 featuring artists Sheila Pree Bright, Albert Chong, Allen Cooley, RenΓ©e Cox, Delphine Fawundu, John Pinderhughes and Deborah Willis, Ph.D. The panel discussion will be moderated by Kirsten Pai Buick, Ph.D., associate professor of art history at The University of New Mexico and explores issues of race, colorism, and racial identity. The panel is collaboratively organized by the Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta Photography and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts and is in conjunction with the Arnika Dawkins Gallery exhibition On Being Black, on view Oct. 16, 2015 to Jan. 22, 2016. This event is a part of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts Howardena Pindell exhibition.

Free and open to the public, this panel discussion will take place at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in the Camilla Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center (GPS Address: 440 Westview Drive, Atlanta 30310). For more information, visit http://museum.spelman.edu/sticky-post/on-being-black-a-panel-discussion/ or call (404) 270-5607.

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